Market Madness 2009: The Sour Sixteen

David Warsh submits: Here’s a relatively light-hearted way to tackle the question of what caused the macroeconomic mess of 2008 and 2009. Allen Sanderson is a familiar figure on the campus of the University of Chicago, a lecturer in economics and a prolific popular writer, especially on the economics of sports. Last summer the university magazine asked him to make some sense of the many competing explanations for the financial crisis.Complete Story »

Here's how we left Lena Dunham's "Hannah Horvath" character in the season 3 finale of HBO's "Girls." In the final scene, we saw Hannah smiling as she clutched her acceptance letter to the prestigious MFA program at the University of Iowa.

It has been a sweet sixteen weeks for the S&P 500. The broad stock market index has had only three down weeks out of the past sixteen. While this stretch is tied by the same period a year ago, it is important to note that there has not been a sixteen-week period with fewer weeks of losses in over 20 years—since the period ending September 1, 1989.

A former professor at the University of Calgary says he left his tenured position after colleagues refused to respond to his concerns about students spreading radical Muslim views.
Aaron Hughes, a prolific author on religion who holds a PhD on Islamic studies, said he once found a message scrawled in Arabic across his classroom’s chalkboard endorsing Islamic Jihad and Hamas, widely considered a terrorist group by Western countries.

The co-founder of Urban Outfitters is helping to build a new college campus in Pennsylvania where students don't take tests, get assigned homework, or even go to class. Instead, students who enroll in Scott Belair's "Mountaintop Project" will spend an entire semester innovating and dreaming up solutions to the world's problems, The Allentown Morning Call reports.